I’m writing this from my good ol’ 12″ PowerBook, which is home to a fresh new 80GB Toshiba hard drive. This “unscheduled upgrade” could have come at a better time, but I’ve been meaning to do a clean install of Tiger for a while now. I had so many programs and preference files and crap everywhere, it sometimes seemed like the whole system had fleas or something.
But now OS X is shiny and clean. I didn’t lose any data, really, because I have a pretty thorough backup of everything, and I almost always store projects that I’m working on on our home network anyway.
The biggest pain in the ass was reinstalling Creative Suite 2. The installation itself wasn’t so bad, but the updating process for Adobe products bee-lows. It wants you to authenticate every 3 minutes for about a half an hour. So I had to babysit the Adobe updater like an annoyed parent.
This also gave me the opportunity to make sure I had the latest versions of all the software I use installed, which is kind of nice.
Anyway, it’s almost like having a new Mac to play around with. Except it’s the same one I had before. It’s just a clean slate is all, which makes it feel new again. Nevermind.
hey, you really need to check out Killing Yourself To Live by Chuck Klosterman. I read the book like last year, but i think you would enjoy it. It’s sort of like a modern day Fear and Loathing, but across the entire country to write about dead rock stars. check it out.